Game of Aces Page #2

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on a patient, right?

You know, only difference here

is you make a mistake,

the patient doesn't die... you do.

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[CLIPPING WIRES]

There we go.

All right.

I'm going to need you

to hold the base of this.

- Oh!

- Go on, hold it.

Right at the bottom.

Just grab it.

Get in here.

Get a good grip on it.

Nice and tight.

Yeah.

Firm.

Just like that.

Here we go.

[SIGHS] Hey, Eleanor?

Uh-hm.

You can let go now.

Read these.

One, remove liquid container.

Two, release the cap.

Three, drain liquid.

Ah!

[LAUGHTER]

Scotch bomb!

What the hell is wrong with you?

Have you been out here so bloody long

you've got sand between your ears?

God!

There's a man lying out there somewhere,

possibly dying, and you're

buggerising around

thinking about only yourself

and your addiction.

God! You are nothing but

a washed-up drunk!

I just hope we're not

two minutes too late to save him

because it's you who's

going to be looking back

at this time that you've wasted

that could have been better spent

saving a life rather than

drinking it away!

You know whose life it is

we're out here supposedly saving?

(ELEANOR) Yes.

Do you?

- Yes.

- [JACKSON YELLING] Do you?

- Yes!

- [YELLING] Do you really?

Josef von Zimmermann.

Captain Josef von Zimmermann,

the... [indistinct]

Germany's top ace.

You heard of him?

- Well!

- Well?

[YELLING] Did you hear that

Captain Josef Von Zimmermann

has singlehandedly

shot down 27 Allied planes

and has 23 confirmed kills,

and did you hear

that one of those 23

confirmed kills was my brother?

[YELLING] Yeah? Well,

how many have you killed?

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

So I'm sorry if I'm not

in any rush to find him.

I didn't know.

I know you didn't know.

Oh, no thanks.

I don't smoke.

How long has it been?

Six months.

Older brother?

Younger.

He shouldn't have been out here.

Ace?

Almost.

Were you close?

As close as brothers are.

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

You know, just because von Zimmermann's

a switch-hitting batter

for both sides

doesn't change anything.

He doesn't deserve to live.

You're... you're not thinking about...

You're not thinking you're going to...

Kill him?

I've seen so many men die in hospitals.

I guess we're just

simply taught to care.

I don't see anyone as good or bad.

I just see them as men...

brothers...

with children, families.

We just do our best to aid them.

Is this why you were grounded?

No.

Come on.

Share.

I crashed too many planes.

What?

I crashed too many planes!

What do you mean

"you crashed too many planes"?

I mean, pilots crash all the time.

(CAPTAIN JACKSON)

Yeah, not when they're drunk.

All right. Well... well,

how many are we talking?

Enough to get me grounded.

Why do you do it?

What? Drink?

Fly.

I don't know.

I guess it's that thing

da Vinci said, you know,

"Once you've tasted flight,

you'll forever walk the earth"

with your eyes turned skyward

because there you've been

"and there you will always

long to return."

That's beautiful.

I never heard anything like that.

Ah, come on, Oxford.

I thought you were educated.

[CHUCKLES] I am, thank you very much.

I know who da Vinci is.

That's good.

What about you?

- Educated?

- No! No! Nope.

I left school when I was 13.

Injury ended my baseball career,

so, military was all

that was left really.

If it wasn't for flying,

I don't know what I'd do.

Do you think it has a future?

Pilots don't think much

about their future.

Yeah, I guess not many

of us do these days.

And you?

Me? Oh, I don't know.

I just like helping people.

At least what you do is exciting.

[CHUCKLES] Yeah, well,

the girls love it.

Oh.

[GIGGLES]

Aw, come on.

You think we just fly up there

risking our lives every day

for fun, huh?

[CHUCKLES] No.

Ninety-nine percent of us

are just pilots

to get the girls.

[LAUGHTER] Oh yeah,

and you're in the 99%, are you?

- Maybe.

- Uh-huh.

Maybe I am.

Maybe I'm a one-percenter.

Oh, wow.

If you figure that out,

perhaps you'll let me know.

[SCREAMS]

[GARGLING]

[LAUGHS]

[SCREAMS]

[CRIES]

[HEAVY BREATHING]

We used to drop them down

on the boys in the western front.

Those scotch bombs.

After a mission, whoever of us was left

would drop one down to

the boys in the trenches.

It became kind of a tradition.

You know, sort of a good luck thing

to let those boys know

we were thinking about them.

We fly back to the base

every night, get drunk,

sleep in a bed if we want.

Those boys down there,

they didn't have that.

They were just in those sewers fighting,

day in and day out.

So those scotch bombs

became a way for us pilots

to recognize that, you know,

and lay away some of the guilt, I guess.

They would love it.

You could hear the cheers

sometimes after we dropped them.

It certainly helped

keep their spirits up.

Is that an American attempt at humor?

What? I don't know

what you're talking about.

"Keeping their spirits up"?

Aw, come on. Even you got to

admit that was kind of funny.

That was kind of funny.

There you go.

I can be funny.

Yeah.

I've never seen a woman

handle a pistol as good as you.

Where the hell did you learn to shoot?

My father.

He was a gun-maker.

He still around?

Dead.

That's why I hate guns.

- Yours?

- Ah, he's dead, too.

That's why I lo-v-v-ve flying.

Two of a kind.

Nah. He was a drunk.

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[SLURPS]

It's 114 miles according

to your calculations.

(CAPTAIN JACKSON) Mark it.

Here.

Nah, still too hot.

We're going to have to wait

until the heat haze clears.

I hope we didn't come

all this way for nothing.

We'll find him.

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[C*CKS GUN]

Captain!

I think I sight something.

That could be it.

Let's go.

[GULPING]

What do you think?

Let's get a little closer.

[C*CKS GUN]

Anything?

There's something out there.

Nah, it's too hard to make out.

Get out of the way.

Sure doesn't look like

much of an aircraft down there if it is.

Doesn't look like anybody

could have survived.

You sure?

I've crashed enough airplanes to know.

No, I just don't want to get down there

and find out it's nothing.

(ELEANOR) We have to look.

Yeah, we do.

You get your gear ready

while we still got light.

[CAR RATTLING ALONG]

I'll be damned!

Watch yourself.

(ELEANOR) Yes, sir.

[FOOTSTEPS]

[C*CKS GUN]

Stay behind me.

Just stay behind me!

[SIGHS] Yes, sir.

[HEAVY BREATHING]

Can you see anything?

Not yet.

- That's him!

- Wait a minute!

Is he dead?

I don't know.

[SCREAMS]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Wait, wait! Drop it!

Drop the gun!

All right! All right!

All right!

[SOBS]

What's he saying?

Your pistol.

- [GUNSHOTS]

- [SCREAMS]

[BIRD SQUAWKING]

[GROANS]

[GRUNTS]

F***!

[GROANS]

[CLANG OF METAL]

F***!

[HEAVY BREATHING]

F***!

[HEAVY BREATHING]

[GROANS]

[GRUNTS]

[CLANGING]

[GASPS]

[GROANS]

[GROANS]

[GRUNTS]

[SIGHS]

[CHUCKLES]

[GASPS]

[SNIFFS] Think, think, think.

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Where are they going?

I hate Egypt!

[METAL CLANGING]

[COUGHING]

[SPITTING]

[METAL CLANGING]

[HEAVY BREATHING]

That is...

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